The Godfather: Part II (movie)

If Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon were even 7 percent less amusing, "The Trip to Italy" would have no reason to exist, even with its casually gorgeous scenery and shattering close-ups of seafood pasta fresh out of the kitchen. Like its predecessor, "The Trip" (which opened in the U.S. in 2011), director Michael Winterbottom's comic breeze of a movie was distilled from a longer BBC-TV miniseries. Coogan and Brydon, both born in 1965 and ubiquitous show business figures in England, again play semi-fictional editions of themselves. Once again Brydon has been hired by the Observer to write about a half-dozen restaurants, this time all around Italy, from Rome to Liguria,...

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